Teachning, Learning and Develpoing with Technology

This site has a wide range of videos which can help you learn a variety of languages from English to Vietnamese.

This is a great free app for managing your courses. You can keep track of schedules and classes, but best of all you can take notes using text, voice, images or video.

Robin Good: For Windows PC users ActivePresenter may prove to be an interesting alternative, with lots of useful features at a price that can't be beaten.

And when you want more options, like extra export formats, or the ability to produce PowerPoint presentation as final output, the Standard and Pro editions come to the rescue.

With ActivePresenter, not only you can record your computer screen along with your own audio narration, but you can also capture screenshots automatically with mouse clicks or key presses and 

automatically generate appropriate annotations for each action.

Even the free version has no watermarks or time limitations.

Other features include:

- Attractive callouts

- Annotations for explaining each action
- Changing mouse cursor path
- Remove/change unneeded parts
- Add more video overlays
- Sync audio, video and overlays
- Closed Captioning

- Make it interactive by adding application simulations, branching scenarios, and quizzes
- Easily publish to the web, desktops, mobile devices, and leading SCORM-compliant Learning Management Systems
- Track and report key metrics to evaluate learner performance

Supported output formats: AVI, MP4, WMV or WebM (supported by Youtube)

Three editions available:

- Free Edition: Can create video (AVI, MP4, WMV, WebM)
- Standard Edition: as Free + output in Flash Video (FLV), Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Adobe PDF and HTML output
- Pro Edition: as Standard + the capability to create interactive AJAX, Adobe Flash simulations and Microsoft PowerPoint presentations.

N.B.: The Free Edition has almost all the features as in the Standard or Professional Edition, except the export capability.

Demo recordings: http://atomisystems.com/demo/ ;

Compare different editions: http://atomisystems.com/activepresenter/features-comparison/ ;

More info: http://atomisystems.com/activepresenter/free-edition/ ;

This is a great browser based tool for creating instant video conferencing rooms. Just create a room then share the URL. Looks like it works on Android phones and iPhone support is coming. Great free communication and tutoring tool.

If you haven't yet, check out my friend @Jessica_Branch 's educational technology site here http://t.co/gcIGzgG7...

StudyStream is a useful tool for practicing your reading or listening in a language you want to learn. It has a range of different mdia and language activities and is free.

This is a great free tool for creating sophisticated looking infographics. The tool uses well designed templates which you can edit and add your own information to. 

Hamster Free Video Converter v2.0 http://videoconverter.hamstersoft.com Now it's free, worldwide (localized at 40+ languages), 200+ devices supported, and extrrrremely fast (supports CUDA).

By Marc Rosenberg:

"10 important implications and recommendations arise for training managers and designers:

1. One size does not fit all. A consistent instructional strategy across the differing capabilities of a worker population may be a mistake.
2. Pass control to learners. As learners become more knowledgeable and skillful, they can benefit from taking more control of their own learning.
3. Entry-level learners are unique. Putting too little structure on entry-level learners may make learning more difficult, confusing, and demoralizing for them.
4. Advanced-level learners are also unique. Putting too much structure on advanced-level learners may make learning boring, frustrating, inefficient, and off-target for them.
5. Learn how to learn. We must give learners the skills and tools to learn on their own or they will become too dependent on more-structured learning programs when they should be evolving to independent learning. Focus on this as early in the learning path as possible.
6. Learning technology usage evolves with increasing mastery. How learning technology is used changes as learners become more masterful, and control of the learning technology should be increasingly placed in the hands of the learners themselves.
7. Learning evaluation is not the same across the model. Evaluation strategies for learning increasingly take their cues from the learner’s level of performance. From testing to observations to work products to organizational contribution and innovation, people at different stages of the model should be evaluated differently.
8. The workplace environment is critical. The more skillful a learner becomes the more important positive and supportive workplace and supervisory environments are in learning design, implementation, and effectiveness.
9. The definition of eLearning is expanding. The nature of eLearning changes as learners move up the mastery ladder. Performance support, knowledge management, mobile apps, social media, and more augment synchronous and asynchronous eCourseware.
10. Instructional design must become more flexible. As learning designs shift when learners move up the mastery ladder, the role of instructional design also changes. Course development yields to information design, collaboration, performance support development, job design, knowledge management, and so on. Instructional designers would be wise to move up their own ladder of skills as well."